The Zohar reception and impact /

The Zohar is one of the most sacred, authoritative, and influential books in Jewish culture. Many scholarly works have been dedicated to its ideas, its literary style, and the question of its authorship. This book focuses on other issues: it examines the various ways in which the Zohar has been rece...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Huss, Boaz (Author)
Other Authors: Nave, Yudith (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Hebrew
Published: Oxford ; Portland, Oregon, 2016.
Series:Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The depiction of R. Shimon bar Yohai and Moses in Zoharic literature
  • 2. The Zohar as an imagined book
  • 3. The formation of the Zoharic canon
  • 4. The authority of the Zohar
  • 5. On the history of Zohar interpretation
  • 6. Revelation versus concealment in the reception history of the Zohar
  • 7. The history of Zohar criticism
  • 8. The recanonization of the Zohar in the modern era.